Brackish Water Desalination

Brackish water desalination from Veolia Water Technologies South Africa (Veolia South Africa) helps to turn inland brackish water and brine streams into a fresh, high-quality water source for drinking, bathing and irrigation. Ideal for arid landlocked regions, our technologies include reverse osmosis and thermal water desalination.

Whether for a large community or smaller settlement in a water stressed municipal regions or for companies needing industrial wastewater treatment, Veolia can design, construct, operate and finance inland water desalination solutions that are environmentally friendly and economical to operate. This helps guarantee a consistent, high quality water supply for day-to-day and emergency use.

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The brackish water desalination market is growing

The water desalination market is divided into two main categories – seawater desalination and brackish water desalination. With growing water shortages globally, roughly one quarter of all water desalination demand is for inland brackish water desalination technology.

Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) and other inland water streams with high levels of total dissolved solids can be turned into high-grade fresh water with water desalination technologies. By separating salts, heavy metals and other impurities from water, companies achieve numerous benefits:

Fresh water desalinated from brine streams can supplement existing water supplies

Polluted water is reclaimed and made less environmentally hazardous

The need to transport water to water-stressed locations is reduced

The sale of water desalination by-products, such as salt and other minerals, can create additional income and supplement the plant's operating expenses

Water desalination explained

Membrane processes

By placing high-salinity water under immense pressure against semi-permeable membranes that are fine enough to allow water through and retain larger molecules, membrane water desalination cost-effectively separates fresh water from salt water. This water desalination method is ideal for large-scale brackish water desalination.

Thermal processes

This water desalination process uses heat to evaporate the brackish water. A large surface area is used to condense the vapours and channel the distilled water away from the salt water. This water desalination method produces fresh water of exceptional quality.

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Brine disposal can be cost-effective

Highly-concentrated minerals and salts - the by-products of water desalination – can be sold as raw material to various industries as building materials, raw ingredients for chemicals, fertilizers and even table salt.

Brine concentrates coming off water desalination processes can also be diluted in low-salinity sewer systems

When to use water desalination inland

Water desalination has been used in a range of inland applications as both a permanent and seasonal solution to water shortage problems:

Water from inner-city rivers can be desalinated during times of drought